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Article: Popular Culture
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Popular Culture
THE ORIGINS OF POPULAR CULTURE
POP CULTURE AND SOCIAL CLASS ISSUES
PRODUCTION
CONSUMPTION
GLOBALIZATION AND NEO-IMPERIALISM
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Popular culture is the domain of cultural products created in mass quantities for a mass audience. While folk culture is the realm of face-to-face culture in small groups and high culture is the realm of cultural products produced by a few for the few, popular culture is more public than folk cultures and more easily accessible than high culture. Popular culture often appropriates ideas, forms, and formulae from both folk culture and high culture. In modern industrialized societies, popular culture appeals to the broad ...